Chinese Shredded Chicken Recipe with an Asian flair topped with with Ginger Sauce makes for a simple and delicious meal with tender, fall off the bone chicken and an Asian based spicy and fragrant ginger and tamari flavored sauce. The thinly sliced green onions give this dish an added crunch. Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free.
Chinese Shredded chicken recipe with an Asian flair and a ginger tamari sauce is about to be your new favorite meal.
I saw a quote shared on instagram the other day that really stuck with me.
This is how it goes “Maybe the journey isn’t so much about becoming anything. Maybe it’s about un-becoming everything that isn’t really you so you can be who you were meant to be in the first place”
Something about that quote. I’ve thought about it a lot recently and feel like it perfectly relates to the 2 year backpacking trip D and I took from 2012 to 2014.
Before our trip started I naturally had high hopes and expectations for it. I imagined I would come back a transformed person, I wasn’t quite sure how, but I imagined I would have my future clearly set in front of me.
That’s hasn’t necessarily been the case. What I have figured out is what I don’t want, and the kind of life I know I don’t want to live and would be happy without.
I think this quote applies to D even more so than to me. Before we set out he was working as an analyst for Capital One, getting ready to apply to business school and perhaps continue his climb up the corporate ladder. During our trip though he had time to get into different things, and has really grown into his entrepreneurial spirit. He’s now been running his own software business for almost three years.
He has figured out that he doesn’t want to corporate job and the MBA. He wants to be his own boss, even if that means working 80 hour weeks in the beginning stages for little pay.
This is something that I feel like he discovered about himself during our travels, during our backpacking trip around Europe, Asian and Oceania.
There’s no clear answer yet, and we haven’t quite “become anything” but I think we’re closer to that than we were years ago, while we were both working 9-5 jobs in Washington DC and really searching for some direction and motivation to keep moving forward.
So on a travel note, it’s only appropriate that I share a travel inspired recipe. During our trip I have discovered dozens and dozens of different ethnic recipes, both from cooking classes and just experimenting myself with various local ingredients and sauces.
In China at a restaurant we tried a dish that was essentially a Chinese shredded chicken recipe with a flavorful Asian sauce. It was light, simple and delicious. I needed to create my own version of this Chinese shredded chicken recipe myself.
This dish is perfect to make when you are making home made chicken broth from scratch to make the Chinese shredded chicken. I essentially just made the broth with a whole chicken and then removed the chicken, already nicely poached and tender, shredded it and made the sauce.
And then I still had all that leftover chicken broth to these soups with:
Win-win!
The saucefor this Chinese shredded chicken recipe is full of Asian flavors and added crunch from the green onions and matchstick ginger, with a hint of fiery spice from the chili pepper.
A gluten-free and dairy-free Chinese shredded chicken recipe is bound to be a hit with everyone!
Chinese Shredded Chicken Recipe with an Asian flair topped with with Ginger Sauce makes for a simple and delicious meal with tender, fall off the bone chicken and an Asian based spicy and fragrant ginger and tamari flavored sauce. The thinly sliced green onions give this dish an added crunch. Gluten-Free and Dairy-Free.
- 1/4 cup chicken broth made from scratch
- 1 tablespoon white wine
- 1 1/2-2 tablespoons gluten free tamari
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 2 inch piece of ginger peeled and cut into matchsticks
- 1 small red chili pepper seeded and diced (adjust based on your spicyness preference)
- a few green onions thinly sliced on the diagonal.
- 1/2 small whole boiled chicken shredded
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In a small bowl combine chicken broth, white wine, tamari, oil, ginger and red chili pepper. Mix until smooth.
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Top shredded chicken with sauce. Sprinkle green onions on top.
Kristie says
Thank you for the recipe. I pinned this to my main dishes board!
Vicky says
Thanks for pinning and sharing! : ))
Kristen @ A Mind Full Mom says
YUM!! I am a new follower! happy to find you via Mandy’s Recipe Box 🙂
Vicky says
Thanks for stopping by. Happy to have you following along!
Pure Grace Farms says
Love your fabulous recipe. Stopping by from the Wednesday Roundup. I would be honored if you would consider sharing your delicious post on Foodie Fridays where I am co-hosting. The party starts Thursday 9 pm Est. Hope to see you there.
Blessings,
Shari
http://puregracefarms.com/
Vicky says
Thanks for stopping by and commenting! Would love to submit this Friday!
Miz Helen says
What a wonderful bowl of flavor and goodness. Hope you are having a fantastic weekend and thanks so much for sharing this awesome post with Full Plate Thursday.
Come Back Soon!
Miz Helen
Vicky says
Thanks so much!
Katie Mae @ Nourishing Simplicity says
This looks so tasty! I love chicken and almost everything Asian! 😉 This going to be shared at Simple Meals Friday this week! Thank you for linking up!
Vicky says
Thanks so much for featuring the recipe! I’m flattered : ))
Thalia @ butter and brioche says
What a delicious recipe! I love coming across quick and tasty recipes that I can recreate for dinner during the week. You can definitely consider I will be recreating the recipe. Thanks Vicky!
Vicky says
Hope you enjoy the recipe! Definitely a simply dinner meal for sure : ))
ap PaulinaLal says
Excellent recipe. I doubled the juice and ginger and left everything else the same. I added some toasted sesame oil at the end and thickened all of that broth with a little cornstarch slurry. A small can of slice water chestnuts was a nice addition. I like the way the sauce got brown and looked delicious… and it WAS delicious. I’ll keep the single serve bottles of apple juice in my freezer for when I need this quick meal to toss together. I think pepper and onions would be a nice addition… or really any kind of vegetable.
Vicky says
Glad you enjoyed the recipe! Thanks for sharing your modifications of the recipe — will have to try it your way next time : )
Cheryl says
How many servings does this recipe yield? I didn’t see where the information was listed, and I was needing a recipe to prepare food for friends who are a family of four (3 of them being male which might mean a little larger than usual portion sizes). Thanks!
Vicky says
THis recipe serves 6, though if you’re feeding 3 hungry males, than maybe this recipe would only feed the 3 of them, so you could make a double batch just to be safe.